DDTS-100 with 4.1 speakers?

I'm in the process of setting up a home theater on a fairly tight budget. I have a set of quality PC speakers that I'm happy with (Klipsch Promedia), and would like to use them for the audio for all my devices. The Creative DDTS-100 looks ideal for this, but all the promotional materials talk about its suitability for 5.1, 6.1, and 7.1 systems, whereas my set is several years old, and is only 4.1.
The specs for the DDTS-100 look like they have three of the standard computer audio-out jacks (I'm not sure of the precise name for this size plug). My 4.1 speakers connect to two of these jacks.
How problematic would it be to combine my existing speakers with the DDTS-100? If I just plug them in, would the DDTS-100 downmix the audio signals to 4.1 Could I just buy a single center-channel speaker and hook it up to the remaining output to get 5.1 sound?
Thanks to anyone that can help with this - I looked over the documentation but it didn't seem to have anything applicable to this particular situation.

This is possible using software that allow choosing of audio output device, like Media Player Classic from xvidvideo.ru . Then you can, for example, play movie with Windows Media Center via output (HDMI), selected in Sound applet of Control Panel, and MP3 from MPC via different device (SB), selected in MPC options. Of course, playing from same source/program to both devices, or to two outputs on same device simultaneously is not possible, except device drivers itself support sound stream mirroring (not the case for Creative Soundblasters).

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